Trauma
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First Combined Face and Eye Transplant Performed
The results are comparable to those of previous facial tissue transplants, but with the significant addition of ocular functionality, which is a...
Perspectives
In the Future, a Robot Intensivist May Save Your Life
Dr. Wilson comments on a unique closed-loop system that can resuscitate and stabilize trauma patients during transport to a higher level of care...
Perspectives
A Military Nurse Saves a Life After a Brutal Rollover Crash
After watching a woman being ejected from her car then run over by a trailer, a nurse stabilizes her for transport to the hospital.
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Christmas: A Time for Love and... Penile Fractures
The authors note that, if every day were like Christmas, there would have been a 43% increase in penile fractures in Germany since 2005.
News
Experimental Therapy Restores Cognitive Function in Chronic TBI
This is the first time a DBS device has been implanted in the central thalamus in humans.
Commentary
What can you do during a mass shooting? This MD found out
We were seeing high-velocity gunshot wounds that I’ve seen for 20 years in the Army. I know how to fix them. But there wasn’t a single thing I...
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Changing Paradigms in Short Stay Total Joint Arthroplasty
In this valuable resource, experts offer insights on evolving strategies for managing perioperative pain in patients who undergo total joint...
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Does new heart transplant method challenge definition of death?
Heart donation after circulatory rather than brain death increases donor hearts available to save lives, but the processes involved raise ethical...
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High school athletes sustaining worse injuries
Although overall injury rates have declined, the number of head and neck injuries increased, as did injuries requiring surgery and those leading...
Commentary
Clinician violence: Virtual reality to the rescue?
Workplace violence is affecting so many providers in hospital emergency departments but also throughout other parts of the hospital.
Perspectives
A doctor must go to extremes to save a choking victim
The restaurant served steak and salmon, and this woman made the mistake of ordering the steak.
Commentary
A freak impalement by a model rocket has this doctor scrambling
A 5-foot-long rocket, two and a half inches in diameter, hit a middle-aged man. ‘But you can’t imagine how.’